Hi, I'm Bryce. I'm a graphic designer, user experience and interaction specialist, conceptual artist, project manager, team leader, and all around creative asset. For more than 18 years I've been designing and driving the end-to-end project management of large web sites and applications for a broad range of professional clientele - everything from educational to enterprise applications, as well as worked on a broad spectrum of cool, challenging and fun work in creative digital, illustration, and audio and video production.

I regularly do consulting and contracting projects for companies, corporations and organizations across the country and around the world - most recently for folks like Amazon,com, Metpahor.com, Askville.com, Hitachi Data Systems, Samsung USA and more. Get in touch with me to discuss how I can help partner with you to address your needs!

BRYCE ERWIN

CREATIVE LEAD – UX DESIGNER – AUDIO + VIDEO PRODUCER

An experienced and multi-talented creative design and user experience lead with a proven ability to craft amazing works of art across a multitude of visual and aural applications, and to lead diverse teams to success on a variety of professional projects and creative endeavors. Strong creative and leadership qualifications with more than 18 cumulative years of hands-on experience in interactive design, user experience, art direction, graphic design and illustration, audio and video production and project management. Demonstrated capacity to successfully examine an organization's style, branding and marketing requirements, pinpoint shortcomings and potential opportunities, and advance innovative and creative digital solutions for improving competitive advantage, escalating revenues, and expanding customer retention.

Professional Experience and Accomplishments

Design Lead:
Highly creative design lead and art director – demonstrated success in orchestrating the complete stylistic approach to a client's project and ensuring on-brand delivery across a wide range of media including interactive design, illustration, print work, text layout, book and magazine layouts and covers and corporate marketing collateral.

Web Producer:
16 years experience in designing and driving the end-to-end project management of large web sites and applications for a broad range of professional clientele - everything from educational to enterprise applications. Well versed in all aspects of the design and development process - from concept to launch. An expert in web usability, information architecture, user experience design methodology and ecommerce systems.

Creative Director:
Co-owner and creative director of two consulting firms - Snapdragon, a successful agency based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for ten years – and Cathexis, a User Experience consultancy since 2012. Consistently raised both companies profitability each year of operation, and retained a fiercely loyal return customer base across a wide spectrum of online, application design, and video production markets.

Artist:
Exceedingly skilled in both traditional and digital illustration with an emphasis on environmental and character concepts, specializing in genre entertainment products, fantasy and science fiction work and game concepts.

Audio Producer:
A master of audio production and post-production for podcast and
radio applications, and a skilled "on-air" audio talent and
character voice actor - was executive producer of the podcast
“Taverncast”, leading the show to the top of the charts
on in it’s category on iTunes for the entire five year run of
the show.

Video Producer:
20 years video production experience in broadcast television and commercial clientele – primarily a producer, also acted as editor, lead camera and director on a wide array of projects.

Professional Work History

Consultant for large corporate and enterprise clients, specializing in user experience and interface design for online and mobile applications. Long term engagements at CEO and stakeholder levels to plan, draft and implement key UX components and systems for a wide variety of end users. Aid companies with overall interface and public web strategy approach, creation of UX documents and requirements for technology teams, user studies and research and visual design for final release.

Creative lead in redefining the web, video and print strategies of medium and large sized companies. Responsible for client facing, internal branding, public image, web / video / print collateral. and creative team formation and leadership. Founded and shepherded company to profitability and continual annual growth.

Senior User Interface Designer and Visual Artist for Amazon.com online advertising and search projects. Responsible for innovating new UI advancements across Amazon’s storefront and peripheral product line, including Endless.com (now Amazon Fashion), imdb.com and Snaptell (now Amazon Visual Search). Responsibe for interface ideation, UI flow and wire-framing, user-testing, and final visual design. Lead graphic designer at A9.com, handling all marketing and public facing collateral. Awarded three patents on behalf of Amazon for my role in developing new search and e-commerce related technologies and APIs.

June 2005 to PresentTaverncast - Internet based "podcast" show and virtual community
Position: Executive Producer / Host / Audio Production/Post-Production lead

Creator, producer and host of a highly successful (over 400,000 listeners) internet podcast program called .Taverncast. that has regular corporate sponsorship and advertising revenue, hosts an online community of over 3000 people, and is consistently rated in the top 50 entertainment shows on Apple's iTunes. Taverncast produces about three shows per month, and incorporates numerous broadcasting styles, from the talk-show roundtable discussion on pop culture, technology, and media to traditional "radio drama."

References:

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16 years experience in designing and driving the end-to-end project management of large web sites and applications for a broad range of professional clientele - everything from educational to enterprise applications.

Well versed in all aspects of the design and development process - from concept to launch. An expert in web usability, information architecture, user experience design methodology and ecommerce systems.

Served as design lead and art director - driven the complete stylistic approach to a client's site and ensured on-brand delivery

Highly skilled in user experience and interface design - from focus groups to user testing, page flows to final implementation

Extensive experience designing to meet usability and accessibility standards on a wide variety of web, application and software products

Significant experience with e-commerce, advertising and system administration interfaces

Note: Many of my clients are NDA or in stealth-mode - please contact me to arrange an offline review of recent work

Highly skilled in both traditional and digital illustration with an emphasis on environmental and character concepts

Specialize in genre entertainment products, fantasy and science fiction work and game concepts

Nearly 18 years of graphic design experience for print and web

Adept at developing compelling brand identity and logo designs

Offer a wide range of styles for business illustration, print work, text layout, book and magazine layouts and covers and corporate marketing collateral - from posters to trade show displays